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Autism and heart rates

JD-on-sea

Does anyone have a raised heart rate or trouble sleeping (and realising their heart is racing) that isn’t related to another heart or medical condition?

I’ve started wearing a sports watch to monitor my heart rate and sleep patterns as I’m tired all the time (which I put down to exhaustion due to masking) and felt like my heart was racing a lot of the time when I had challenging days at work. There’s nothing wrong with me physically in this area, but it’s been fascinating to have a message on my watch say that I’ve had a really stressful day when I’ve just been sitting at my desk. But it was correct because I’d been masking all day and felt worn out. It’s also corroborated what I’ve been saying about not getting good quality sleep and then still feeling tired the next day.

Has anyone else experienced anything similar (with or without technology to back you up)?

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  • For years before my Autism diagnosis I was worried about my sleeping heart rate

    I could wake up in the middle of night - thinking my heart was racing away and feeling very odd.  I found it difficult to explain this to my Doctors, as think I may have Alexithymia too.

    I bought stand alone heart monitors  that you held in your hand, so I could do a trace in the middle of night, and about two years ago got a Smart Watch , which seems to show my heart rate fluctuate between high 50s to 100, and every night it can be 60 one minute and in the 90s the next whilst I'm asleep

    What I believe this is all down to Autistic Anxiety - why I woke up.  When I had an ECG , daytime at the doctors, then all is fine.

    I've reduced the amount of time I now wake up, following some therapy ,which was largely focused on worry, but I still suffer with anxiety (i'm not medicated)  and wake up in the middle of the night occasionally , it seems to be returning again, but not to past levels yet

    The smart watch though - does sometimes contradict how I feel, so when 've had a good night sleep the watch shows otherwise, so I'm not too sure if its reliable they are tbh.

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  • For years before my Autism diagnosis I was worried about my sleeping heart rate

    I could wake up in the middle of night - thinking my heart was racing away and feeling very odd.  I found it difficult to explain this to my Doctors, as think I may have Alexithymia too.

    I bought stand alone heart monitors  that you held in your hand, so I could do a trace in the middle of night, and about two years ago got a Smart Watch , which seems to show my heart rate fluctuate between high 50s to 100, and every night it can be 60 one minute and in the 90s the next whilst I'm asleep

    What I believe this is all down to Autistic Anxiety - why I woke up.  When I had an ECG , daytime at the doctors, then all is fine.

    I've reduced the amount of time I now wake up, following some therapy ,which was largely focused on worry, but I still suffer with anxiety (i'm not medicated)  and wake up in the middle of the night occasionally , it seems to be returning again, but not to past levels yet

    The smart watch though - does sometimes contradict how I feel, so when 've had a good night sleep the watch shows otherwise, so I'm not too sure if its reliable they are tbh.

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